3rd Annual Marian College Undergraduate Research Symposium in Chemistry

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Marian Hall Room 355

• Morning Session - 9.30 a.m.
  
  • Bryston Bangel - The Search for Alternative Fuels: Biodiesel
  • Joe Mazur - Salicylic Acid and Aspirin: The Design of Greener High School Experiments
  • Ryan Bernhardt - Green Organic Chemistry : The Design of Greener Undergraduate Labs
  • Sarah Waller - Spectroscopic Studies of Aqueous Iodine Equilibria

• Afternoon Session - 2.00 p.m.
  
  • Greg Esslinger - CO₂ as an Alternative Solvent
  • Ryan Bernhardt - The Generation of Benzene in Soft Drinks: Sodium Benzoate in the Presence of Ascorbic Acid
  • Camra Faulkner - A DFT Study of Hydrogen-Bonding Between Adenine and Thymine
  • Melissa Hawley '05 (formerly Kelly) - Invited Presentation: The Science of Converting APIs to Finished Pharmaceutical Injectable Drug Products

Click on the links to view PDFs of the presentations.

Photograph: Ryan Bernhardt in action during one of his two presentations at the Symposium.

Last year's symposium.